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PEOPLE v. McGAUTHA

Docket No. Crim. 11860.

70 Cal.2d 770 (1969)

452 P.2d 650

76 Cal. Rptr. 434

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DENNIS COUNCLE McGAUTHA and WILLIAM RODNEY WILKINSON, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman F. Selvin and Alfred Bornstein, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas S. Kerrigan, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TOBRINER, J.

The District Attorney of Los Angeles County charged Dennis Councle McGautha, William Rodney Wilkinson, and Fannie Lue Smith by information with two counts of armed robbery (Pen. Code, § 211) and one count of murder in the first degree (Pen. Code, § 187). Defendant McGautha was also charged with four prior felony convictions, all of which he admitted. The trial court granted a severance as to Fannie Lue Smith.

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